United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio


The 147th Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 22 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio. It was one of the “Hundred Days Men regiments” intended for short term rear echelon duties in the summer of 1864.
May 16 853 men mustered in under Colonel Benjamin F. Rosson
May 20 Left State for Washington, D.C.
June-July Assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Ethan Allen, Marcy, Reno and Stevens, Defenses of Washington. Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps
July Assigned to 2nd Brigade, De-Hussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps
July 11-12 Repulse of Early’s attack on Washington
August 30 787 men mustered out